Re: Adding a New Primitive Type in Hive

2016-11-21 Thread Alan Gates
A few questions: 1) What operators do you envision UUID supporting? Are there UDFs specific to it? Are there constraints on assuring its uniqueness? 2) A more general form of question 1, what about UUID is different from a string or decimal(20, 0) (either of which should be able to store a

Re: Adding a New Primitive Type in Hive

2016-11-19 Thread Edward Capriolo
Technically very do-able timestamps and other decimal types have been added over the years. It actually turns out to be a fair amount of work mostly due to the proliferations of serde that need to be able to read/write that type On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Juan Delard de Rigoulières <